Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (Opus Books) - Couverture souple

Butler, Marilyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192891324 ISBN 13 : 9780192891327

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

The Age of Revolutions and its aftermath is unparalleled in English literature. Its poets include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; its novelists, Jane Austen and Scott. But how is it that some of these writers were apparently swept up in Romanticism, and others not? Studies of Romanticism have tended to adopt the Romantic viewpoint. They value creativity, imagination and originality - ideas which nineteenth-century writers themselves used to promote a new image of their calling. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries puts the movement in to its historical setting and provides a new insight in Romanticism itself, showing that one of the most dynamic and stressful periods of modern times fostered a literature that was itself various and contradictory.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Marilyn Butler is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. She is also the author of Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (Clarendon Press, 1975), Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography (Clarendon Press, 1972), Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (ed.) (CUP, 1984), and a biography of Peacock.

Revue de presse

Full of information and insights for the reader." Rosemary Ashton, TLS

Mrs. Butler has a wide range of critical and human sympathy. She is both shrewd and witty, and she ensures that we will re- read with keener appreciation the works she discusses. (Naomi Bliven, New Yorker)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0192891324
• ISBN 13: 9780192891327
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224